Vista really stinks - after 8 frustrating months I got xp and installed it on my vista pre-loaded toshiba. I never had ultimate or business so guess what me no qualify for toshiba downgrade deal, *******s. got xp any way and much much better VISTA SUX Gonna keep an eye on Ubuntu as well. Bill Gates yer done for!

My daughter attempted to get online but the system would not accept her password. She tried several times.....I even tried for her but could not. When I was going to reset it under mine, it said that if I did it she would lose all her email and other things. She just wants me to reset it. When the window comes up about using a floppy disk or flash drive, we do not have a floppy drive and...

I am the sole user and hence, system administrator for my HP a1630n, running VISTA Home Premium. When I attempt to install my HP printer, I get the following: X system does not meet min. req'ts to install this software. Requirements Software cannot be installed using "run as..." cmd. x Run as Since I am the system administrator and have installed many pieces...

Help. I changed the default login on my daughters Vista laptop and type to standard user, and I created a new Admin account with Admin rights for me. After creating both and creating adding a new password for the Admin account I can no longer log in as Admin. At the OS login, the Admin account immediatly comes up with a message that a new password must be created for the first time login...

Hello, I have two user accounts on the lap top. Both are administration accounts (MarciH and Roger). When I turn on the system duplicated user accounts show up ... e.g. two MarciH and two Roger account folders. All four are active ... I can start from either one of the four. The start up of the system is somewhat slower since this problem occured. -- thanks, roger

I just received my new pc with Vista ultimate. I added a user for myself, but noticed that when the pc booted it automatically logged right into the administrator account without stopping at the welcome screen to ask which user i wanted to be. I figured out how to disable the administrator account and it stops at the welcome screen on boot. The problem is that it tried to login into the...

Hello: I have a small office environment with five new Vista Ultimate computers and a Netgear NAS. Sometimes it is necessary for somebody to log into a different computer and they would like their desktop, favorites, cookies, documents folders, etc. to be available to them. My understanding is the best way to do this is with a Roaming User Profile. But to use the Roaming User Profile, I...

I'm finding Windows' parental controls quite unwieldy, if I understand them well. Our computer automatically downloads a benign update for FireFox, for instance, but then Windows Parental Controls blocks my kids from using the computer until I can be there to enter my password to allow that simple auto download to go ahead. This seems excessive, and I can't find a way to configure this...

When i try using certain programs on vista, it will tell me that i can not complete the task because i need to be an admin... i am the admin and the only user on the computer. is there a way to address this, or can i never use my spyware scanner properly ever again???? --Julian

One of the guys I work with personal start folder disappeared (deleted accidentally perhaps), so I simply recreated it and added the appropriate shortcuts to it, but the programs won't launched at startup. I rebooted again, but they still didn't start. I didn't know why, so I just moved all the shortcuts to the to the "All Users" startup folder. They launched fine, but now 2 copies of...

Hello All: I was wondering if there is a way to install software on remote client machines (XP and VISTA) without using the RDP or Group Policy. I have tried using the PSEXEC (Mark Rassianovich's pstools), but had limited success, also tried remote installer trial version and it didn't always work. Cheers.

I'm trying to do a bios upgrade on a compaq presario f500 and am getting the message that you must be logged on as administator to run both the bios program from packed the HP web site (sp3687.exe) and the unpacked executable (SWinFlash.exe). I have tried run as administrator on both files, have tried going to dos and doing a net user administrator /active, etc. and nothing seems to work....

Last Sunday upon restart I selected a user on my PC and the screen went blank and displayed an error message "Licencing error "with two choices Validate online or Close. If you selected Close you went back to the user selection screen. If you selected Validate online it took you to the Genuine Microsoft pages at Microsoft.com and asked you to Validate your licence. You try and validate and...

I would like to know how to change the administrative settings so that I can save photos and videos directly into windows photo gallery instead of saving into a file or public photos and public videos file? Any suggestions on how to change these settings please reply -- nrobi

When opening the Event Viewer I discovered there were NO logs. Instead I received a message that MMC could not create the snap-in. The snap-in might not have been installed correctly. This is a 7 month old eMachine and I have no idea how to install the snap-in. I can't even find out where to check to see if it's enabled or disabled per the Help File. What can I do to get my Event Viewer...

Our companies software will only launch if the user is in an administrators group. I have tried launching our program under power user and standard user with no luck. The UAC is turned off, when I try to launch the program It generates the following error, Please help if you can Description: Stopped working Problem signatu

Hi, I have created multiple accounts in Vista, but although my account is visible as it's own (virtual) folder under Desktop, I cannot see it in C:\users - I can see all the other accounts. Also, when I backup and do a test restore, I cannot see my folder in c:\test restore\...\users. However the directory is there when I run a command prompt and execute dir in C:\users (and in C:\test...

I am the only administraor on the PC. and i have forgotton my password and do not have un password rest disc. Help, how can I get this fixed.

my hibernate for windows vista is gone for my laptop what do i do to fix this...

Not sure if this should go here or not but... I use my personal laptop at work. There its on a domain. Checking the exceptions Media extenders are checked and with a NO under group pol. When i try to connect at home using my home profile, it finds the extender, but can't connect to it. When i first got the laptop, it worked great, since joining it to domain, nada.